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Hi, everyone! Here are a few responses to your comments. J, we always look at new markets via meetings with the airports, including GSP. And you never know what can happen! Chris, we usually don't "bend" itiineraries back more than 110 degrees or so--and AUS-PHL-PIT would be way, way over that limit. It might be better to try and give you a PIT onestop via MDW. It'd be much more direct and less circuitous! Chuck, for question #1, a lot of times it depens on what happens the rest of the week. If a flight flies, say, Dallas-Houston-Harlingen during the week, but on a Saturday the Dallas-Houston flight goes on to Orlando instead of Harlingen, we have to change the flight number of either the DAL-HOU or the HOU-HRL legs. Hope that makes sense! As for #2, a LOT of factors go into flight numbers. The full routing of that flight may have changed, for example--instead of Philadelphia-Chicago-K.C,-Denver-Vegas-San Diego, in a new schedule it may go Philadelphia-Chicago-K.C.-Phoenix-Ontario-Sacramento. Our optimization system would would likely change the flight number. Or, we have very strict rules governing how close in time flight numbers that sound alike can be. For example, we wouldn't want flight 1866 and flight 1856 arriving or departing at an airport close to each other to make air traffic instructions more easily understood. GREAT questions! Keith, we're watching all of those markets....and good things come to those who wait. :) Cori, if you've already bought your tickets, you're fine. Our changes were for the summer months, which we just put out for sale. Robert, seasonal service *is* exciting. And we'll see if things get more radical! Don, again--you never know what can happen. LAS-FLL could be good for us. However, until then--enjoy the onestop, no-change service we offer with a quick stop in TPA! Have a GREAT weekend, everyone! ... View more

Good GOD--GET A FREAKIN' GRIP, PEOPLE! A Supervisor (NOT a flight attendant) called a buxsom, but otherwise not terribly attractive, "Hooters Girl" (now there is resume material...) on the carpet for looking like a streetwalker and flashing her business to everyone that cared to look every time she sat down--just like she did on the Today show today. And for THAT some of you think Southwest should burn in the fires of hell???? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE'???? Here's my theory: all of you that swear you'll "NEVER FLY SOUTHWEST AGAIN" probably weren't terribly loyal Southwest customers in the first place. And all of you so full of oddly vehement moral outrage are the same ones that have lost sight of the fact that there is a difference between a a free society with freedom and morals--and a society where lack of morals means you have the freedom to do ANYTHING, without regard to societal mores. And to the one person that asked "would it have made a difference if she wore short shorts?"--YES, IT WOULD. Daisy Dukes at least have fabric covering the crotch--as did the storied hot-pants worn by the girls in Southwest's distant past. This girl's "skirt" (and I use the phrase loosely) didn't. Period. GEEZ.....and good job, once again, Southwest Airlines. ... View more